skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be really interesting to know that if someone downvoted this link, why did they do it? I'd be eager to learn about the reasons and to understand it better.
I first got good at network programming by writing /. crapflooders in the late 90's and early 00's, and my profanity skills honed in the trolltalk salt mines still take my mother's breath away to this day.

Thanks for everything Rob!
Yep. On my Samsung I can sideload, er, dubious applications.
I wore one out a year ago. It was going through an AT to PS/2 adapter then a PS/2 to USB adapter. The "S" key started only working on about 9/10 keystrokes :(
A fresh look at our Galaxy points to a chaotic past and a violent end
I still have Slashdot in every browser as a bookmark, even though I rarely visit the site. I can't bring myself to remove it.
So called phase cancellation as often vocals are positioned in the middle of thee panorama and there's no difference between the content of left and right channel of the vocall tracks. That's thee popular way to create instrumental and acapella versions for mashups.
Alternate title: Varnish can serve 375m pageviews/mo on a mostly-static site on an EC2 micro instance.

It's true, but I guess most people here know that.
Maybe it's an issue of meaning. "Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market"

I think, the app store is a market. I also think, blocking, or even just delaying, entry to the market is anti competitive.

Google appears to be ready to go. Maybe their app violates the app store agreement somehow, and it's bouncing through the review process. Nonetheless, as an external observer, it looks like apple is dragging its feet. A review takes about two weeks, right? Four+ iterations seems like a lot.
One of my first jobs out of college was with MobileWorks, a YC company founded in part by foreign graduate students at Berkeley. I wouldn't have been employed if the founders hadn't managed to navigate the atrocious laws preventing foreign entrepreneurs from starting companies in the US.

I'm sure that for every American with a story like mine, there are dozens of people who could have been employed at companies started by foreign-born entrepreneurs but never had the chance. The US is doing serious, long-term damage to itself with these wrong-headed policies.
Lessons in Self-Mastery From a Blind Chef
Interesting bit of trivia: for the early casting meetings on TNG, the producers got nervous about Patrick Stewart's baldness, and fitted him with a toupee. It didn't test well, which is probably for the best.
Steve Martin’s Advice for Building a Career You Love
Swedish Pirate Party surges after file-sharing host facility raided
Randian libertarian? Really? No, I'm actually quite moderate. I'm a left of center person here in the U.S., and my time in the deep south has made me keenly aware of how horrible the excesses of conservatism can be. However, my time in liberal areas of the nation (northern California, Massachussetts, etc.) has shown me how horribly wrong the classic ivory tower liberalism can go also. I don't dislike people victimized by discrimination. I just dislike systems in which discrimination is fixed by more discrimination. I also recognize how horribly wrong nanny state laws can go.

Look at California's renter protections. They go way, way beyond reason in dragging out an eviction process. As a result, people who would otherwise rent out properties do not, or do so at a much higher price to ensure that only high income people move into said properties. By protecting the poor people from landlord abuses, the result is that decent poor people who pay rent are punished by the indecent poor people who abuse the system and take advantage of squatter rights. Protections always, always come with a cost, hidden or not. I don't think (like Randians do) that this cost should ALWAYS be avoided and we should all go the path of John Galt fantasy land. I just think that too often, ivory tower liberals (by this I mean people who don't work in the private sector and confine themselves to academic and gov't advisory roles) don't see the costs of the protections they chase after, or don't consult with industry to find out what they truly are.

I will be voting for Obama this November. You know, because I hate minorities and women's rights and I worship Ayn Rand.
According to Herb Sutter at [1], ARMv8 will support a couple new ops to support sequentially consistent memory access.

1: http://herbsutter.com/2012/08/02/strong-and-weak-hardware-me...
Heads I win, tails you lose.

Apple either sends users and data to the belly of the beast that decided to complete head-on with them (making Android better, by the way) or figures out how to do this stuff themselves and offers beta products. I would say that Apple doing the latter given Google's aggression makes a lot more sense than Google's aggression in the first place.
Netbot: An App.net Client from Tweetbot Creators
Andreessen Horowitz invests $15 million in Rap Genius
MooTools has always aimed to be compliant with the next version of Ecma. In a lot of ways it is a shim for whatever is next.
I don't think it's a characteristic of a particular group of people you call, "techies." I think the disease of cynicism has well spread to all demographics and levels in society. There have been humans predicting the end of the world ever since we were able to weave tales. The method of the apocalypse always seems to change but the idea that we are doomed does not.

The irrational thing about it is that despite generations of these prophets fore-telling us of the end-times humanity has continued to survive and in the last few hundred years it might have even improved. I suspect that even if we ushered in an era of ever-lasting peace and solved all of our problems that these cynics would just find another story to tell.
Can anyone point to the actual transcript where Hogan is asked if he has been part of another lawsuit. I want to really see if the 10 year clause is in there or not.

I frankly just don't trust Groklaw to accurately report this story.
In short, if your site is mostly or entirely static after the initial creation of a page, setup Varnish (or similar reverse proxy / web accelerator) to cache and serve your pages at a timeout rate you find acceptable.
Make your mobile web apps fly - Google IO 2012
People bitching about MS misusing the term "open-source" are, IMO, ungrateful SOBs who have never attempted to implement a non-trivial algorithm based on nothing but a stack of academic papers.

For me, the greatest value in having the source is to learn from it, not to hijack it.
Ask HN: Directory of JS Libs
I see at least one new JS lib being announced via the front page of HN everyday. Makes me wonder if there is a central place for discovering all the libraries, like an app store for JS libraries.

How do you keep track of the latest in the world of JS?
Honest questions: Don't Micro instances get throttled under sustained demand? And aren't they lowest priority on the host?
Ironic that they split the article into 2 pages, and readibility only gets the abstract, so ads got in the way as well.
NYTimes, could you please make your included stylesheets load over HTTPS too? I don't want to have to disable your site in HTTPS Everywhere. Thanks!
But at her level, as a partner to the firm, she would be expected to deal with litigation. So yes, her behavior here is absolutely a professional issue. Her Quora post is such an insanely bad idea that it does cast some doubt as to her professional behavior, and how she would react in a similar high stress situation involving a lawsuit.

I don't have a problem with the fact that she filed the suit. She clearly felt discriminated and harassed enough to file it. It's fine to drop a line to journalists with the unsealed court documents, and build your public opinion case that way.
I agree, though the press may make that comparison for people.
> When you have the CEO of one company saying it will wage thermonuclear war on a product, that is clearly a statement of intent to destroy said product that goes beyond competition in the marketplace.

It's been said that the Hohenzollern family had a specific policy: Never start a war unless victory is assured. War is a "two edged sword." It has the potential to do both sides serious harm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hohenzollern

Apple needs to do some soul searching. They need to be looking out for their customer's best interests. Somehow they've lost the way, and empirically, this is no longer the case. Maps is just the biggest symptom. The article points out another.
Engineered for Fraud
For me as a user, having an app that works replaced with an app that doesn't work is a bad thing.
Twin spy telescopes could drive US space astronomy forward, but at what cost?
Thinking this a bit further, it would be possible to write a simple xdoctest command that would extract all code blocks from a JavaScript document and save them in the format doctest.js supports. Then you could do stuff like:

## Capitalizing text

The `capitalize` function receives a string and returns
it in capitalized format. Example:

```javascript
print(capitalize('some words'));

// => Some Words
```

...and generate both your API docs and the runnable tests from the same file. This way you'd only need to keep one set of examples/tests up to date.
I just found that the H1-B visa requires a bachelor's degree. You can't get work in the US if you're a talented designer or programmer and don't have a degree.
"Nothing is different and things are okay." doesn't sell ad views.
Almost as if he was born with a single vision that he implemented all the way through his life.
Of course the bandwidth bill will be a bit more than $15 for 375MM pageviews.
EDIT: Are you referring to something like this: "http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2012/09/06/copyright-defende...?

Could you clarify more? An offshore IT company that does not own any copyright is suing bittorrenters? On what basis exactly? And they're scraping IPs and are allowed to bring that up in court?
No. EB5 category allows you to start your business but it has it's own conditions. You get a provisional EB5 visa during which you must invest $1M and employ 10 people to qualify for a permanent visa. Up until recently, VC funding was not a qualifier towards the $1M number.
The most recent three generations of iPhone, one of iPad, one of Macbook Pro, and one of iPod touch have all been Retina.

I looked at a 3GS the other day and had a "this display looks like shit, what's wrong?" moment before I remembered. That's not how Apple wants the first encounter with an iPad mini to go.
I think what gets throttled is the CPU, so if your instance isn't consuming too much CPU then you're fine. I believe that because he's using Varnish and a cache plugin he's not hitting the DB often, thus serving static content most of the time.
We've actually talked about adding this to CoffeeScript in the past, as a regular language feature. (You've probably already read the ticket.)

The reason we don't is because good tests are very rarely the same thing as good examples. Good examples often elide bits of code that aren't pertinent to the API function being demonstrated ... and good tests often involve the edge cases that are poorly suited to learning examples.

While testing your examples is all well and good, it's also limiting -- you can no longer write:

makeRequest({
url: 'http://example.com/endpoint',
data: ...,
})

... unless, come to think of it, you had some sort of Yada-yada operator that served as a silent no-op.
Oddly enough the ctrl key in the home row is a Unix thing (I think it's a Sun invention, but I don't recall). On the original space cadet keyboard (and all the Symbolics keyboards), Rub Out is located where modern day Caps Lock is found (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard). Ctrl is still located on the bottom row.

Has anyone tried remapping a delete key to where the Caps Lock key is found? Is there anyone with a real space cadet keyboard or symbolics keyboard that can comment on using it with vim or emacs?
S Korean start-ups seek level playing field
Hey, Third World We know what you need: Mmm, patent wars
Pet Battle between Charlie and Helmut - VSPETS: The Internet Pet Competition
Title is confusing. It should be "would-be immigrants" not "immigrants."
Dwolla: How we’re different (Episode 2)
Sure. But you have to pay for all of them again.
There is an exception for people who have worked a long time in the field (I don't recall the exact number, but something like 12+ years) and can document that.
If America really wants to increase entrepreneurship, make health insurance portable and not tied to corporate America. That would encourage workers to start their own business.

Trying to tweak the immigration process in the name of "increased entrepreneurship" is often just a ruse for "open the borders!!!". Fine in and of itself if that's your beef. Just please file it right folder.

Letting Congress, political donors, H1-B employers and college administrators try and engineer the future by selecting "winners" seems like something they're going to mess up.

Better to have limited, legal only immigration based on a points system rather than turn it into a subsidy for Sand Hill Road.
Ask HN: App Landing Page Service
A couple of months back there was a post about a startup providing landing pages for mobile apps. I now need to avail of such a service but cannot find the link.

Does anyone have recommendations for such a service or even an HTML template that is fairly customizable?
This is a more in-depth article with almost the exact same information that was previously on HN a few months ago.

http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with...
Have you heard of, for instance, UL? The electronics in your home have almost assuredly been tested and certified. Large retailers won't sell you non-certified electronics.

Apple has every right to vet the apps it sells in its app store. And it makes sense to do so.

But I agree with your second point, that consumers should have the option to obtain apps from other stores.
I think a more salient point lies later in that same paragraph:

Missing are the Taiwanese—their proportion dropped from 5.8 percent to 1.1 percent. This is probably because, as Taiwan became a developed nation and improved its universities, fewer Taiwanese have been coming to the U.S. to study and work.

The article is concerned about the 4.1% reduction in the number of people from other countries starting companies in the US, but dismisses the 81% (not 427%, thx denniedarko) drop in companies founded by Taiwanese immigrants. Essentially, the author's saying that the people living in India and China haven't built universities that can attract students and professors better than American universities can, so the people born there are leaving.

Why is Taiwan considered differently?
The author here. This project was not ready for public release or review. Examples and docs need to be created etc. Should have been behind a firewall. Thanks for all your feedback.
Blatant ripoff of Bruce Schneier's article http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html
Prediction: Who Will Dominate Presidential Debate Round 1 on Domestic Policy?
The US isn't the only place to start something, try Berlin and say goodbye to any visa problems.

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun.

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events, every week.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

=> http://urge.io/jobs (shameless plug)
Tapbots releases Netbot, an App.net client
I'm not a political scientist but being an immigrant myself (not to US but Germany), I've never understood why the whole issue can't be as simple as just letting people come in with a visa, applying for jobs (without law enforced disadvantages), and pay taxes, after x amount of years working and paying taxes then applying for citizenship and basta. I don't see what countries have to lose except skilled laborers that are working and paying taxes, boosting the economy and fostering innovation...
I can't get passed the way the code is formatted.
Please just write it the way people normally write JavaScript:

$$ ({
home: {
route: {
defaultOnly : true
}
}
})​

Or in CoffeeScript:

$$
home:
route:
defaultOnly: true

Other than that, this is sort of interesting. Reminds me of Couch Apps, which I could never get the hang of and eventually had to stop messing with. Everything is declared according to a specific structure, but its hard to figure out what structure you are supposed to use for a given task. High learning curve and difficult translation from imperative thought to this type of patterned declaration.
That assumes that they do not co-operate. Perhaps they are not required to co-operate by law. However, let's assume that you are running a VPN hosting service out of Russia or wherever that is not doing so well financially.

Now you get a nice offer from some men in fancy suits who represent some company that has some link to the MPAA/RIAA/whoever. They offer to help subsidise your server costs and in return they get access to your log files. Now maybe this country does not have such privacy laws as other places, so you aren't compelled to tell your customers about this change.

The new subsidies however do allow you to lower your prices to a level where you start getting a huge chunk of the business.
Given Apple's design cycle, Jobs likely played with early iPhone 5s.
Yet another reason why the iPhone 5 is the worst iPhone ever produced. Not because it is bad - objectively it is in all ways better than previous iPhones - but because it is comparatively worse than the current state of the art (Galaxy Nexus). Maps are horrible, voice search not as good, no NFC, less radio bands, etc etc.

The iPhone 5 marks the first time in the product line's history that it was not advancing the state of the art.
Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Vin Diesel...
Fact checking George Dyson (where he taps me on the shoulder)
In the last couple of centuries, lots of Chinese men traveled abroad to find work, many in the western US. More recently men from all over the globe have come to the US for work as well. These men are often supporting families back home, but being unattached makes it even easier to travel abroad to find work in a richer nation than the one you're leaving. I'd expect that trend to continue: the men in these countries that have a too few women will travel to countries where there aren't enough young people to do all of the work that needs doing.

They still won't have wives (unless they like much older women), but they'll have money, and that will give them the resources they need to find companionship. (eg: traveling someplace with a surplus of women, competing with poorer men for the attention of women, paying for prostitution, etc.)
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Mostly on the radio I hear about Apple and Chinese labor, so they seem like a multinational company more than an American company even though they do "command and control" from the US.

Also they don't employ a huge number of Americans compared to other large companies (and excluding retail they remain pretty small, esp. compared to Microsoft). Maybe the valley is different too, because a large proportion of the population are immigrants.
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To be honest, I think both styles are good practice, but it totally depends on the context. For example, if I want to describe how the "#admin?" method is working, I'll use

describe "#admin?" do ...

but if I'm describing a different method, that does different things depending on whether the user is an admin or not, I'll do the following:

describe "#some_other_method" do
describe "if the user is an admin" do
...

So you can mix and match both styles, depending on what exactly you're describing (and it's context).

If you're looking at the OP more closely, it even says this is only recommended for "describing methods".
Here's one more: Michael Chiklis in The Shield.
Threat of 3D Printing: Will Politics & Big Business Kill a Promising Technology?
That analogy is completely wrong.

When companies write apps in C# for the Microsoft platform, they are going to pretty much stay on the Microsoft platform. Those apps, for the most part, aren't ported to the Mac and Linux (please skip the Mono discussion, it's not a 100% solution). Fortune 500 companies and commercial companies are locking consumers into Windows. Maps is one product. There are thousands of C#, Windows only apps.
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Wow, that sounds like a really bum deal. Thanks for sharing your experience. Hopefully it will help others avoid the same fate. Keep your chin up and keep pressing forward and you will come out on top in the end.
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AOL looking to spin out Techcrunch’s CrunchBase
I've always wondered what 1000memories business cards look like, because I'd totally love it if they were gravestones:

DAN WILLIAMS

BELOVED FOUNDER AND CTO

Okay, that was random, but congrats on the acquisition. Great fit.
I don't see how suing my employer can ever be the right answer when passed over for a promotion. For something as subjective as employee performance in a company, I am the last person qualified to evaluate my own performance or suitability for leadership. In general, an individual's word is worth less than an organization's, particularly when it concerns their own financial interests. Any winnings in the slim chance a discrimination suit against my employer goes in my favor are likely outweighed by the damage to my career as I am seen as a litigation risk for the rest of my life.
Slashdot has been the only site where I've been able to spend two hours learning about hard drive technology just by reading comments. Good times...
Why not? Classes are just one implementation/realization of OOP. They're the most common, to be sure, but they're by no means the only way to do objects, nor are they necessarily the best.

“There is more to OOP, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Wow! What has here husband got to do with anything? Also you seem to be discounting her husbands claims without knowing much of his history, from being a trader I have read a lot of material on this guy and his story is nothing short of amazing. He also did get a settlement in the 80s when the firm thought that he was too young to get paid the money he earned. He settled for less than what he was supposed to get. You should really research situations before making broad claims about people and their ethics. Reading one nymag article is not research. Regarding Ellen Pao, I will wait to hear more evidence before I make any accusations but the guy that was married and always coming onto her does not seem like appropriate behavior.
Google Maps API - More Than A Map